Digitial News Production: Green Screen Workshop, Adobe Illustrator & After effects tutorial

Green Screen Workshop The Green screen allows you to get creative with your visual pieces. It's a medium that allows you erase visual you don't need in your visual and key in new ones. For example, you might shoot an interview in a studio but you don't like the atmosphere/surrounding and want something more relevant to your topic of discussion for the interview. You can use a green screen to get rid of that backdrop and add a new one, be it an image or graphic design studio setup. Below is a video that fully helped me understand the process...

Fiction Adaptation (Poem Background and Visual Ideas)

For You Dear  Friend // Anthony Anaxagorou Background For you dear friend tells the story of a broken character going through a wave of dark emotions like Loneliness, Self Loathing and Depression, but is told by someone (Anthony) that seems to have a connection with this person in the story.  Throughout the poem these themes are touched on in manners that evoke questions in the mind of the reader. e.g. : Why does this person feel these emotions?  Why are they so detached from the “light” and so drawn to the...

Fiction Adaptation (Rules of adaptation)

Adapting Novels and Poems to screen & Visual and Narrative Ideas  For an adaptation to be successful, it needs to include all the elements necessary to make it connect in a manner that tells the story in your own way yet still retaining parts of its original form. e.g. storytelling. According to Michael Hauge the foundation of story telling is simply character, desire and conflict. That the underlying system of all stories is this: emotionally involving characters must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve...

(Digital News) Pre-Production: News Package and Live OB ideas

We want our news topics to be broad and concise, fun but still informative and something relevant to everyone. Hence why we've chosen some exciting topics to look out for our news program. Below is a list of content for our news program highlighting what exactly we're talking about and what we hope to include in the program in regards to sources and experts. Studio - Introduction, and coming ups, packages and Live news. The Intro would be a short but nice graphic video illustrating what our brand name. Then we'd do an oral list of things...

(Digital News)Pre-Production:Ideas Lab

 Finding our Niche Having decided my group we began immediately finding ideas about the kind of brand we wanted to be. Eventually we decided to form a lifestyle news program - after looking around the room for inspiration - as most of our interests fell under this category. I looked at other brands online Like TMZ, PerezHilton, and E!news All of which had some aspects we wanted to integrate into our brand such as fashion, music, film , love nd relationships, fitness and health,trending topics online and all other things lifestyle. We figured...

(Digital News) Pre Production: TrendTv Presentation (Now Newstrends)

A presentation of our ideas from the idea lab. Includes new updates on Ideas like the target audience and our brand statement. "Making it our duty to pull you out from under the roc...

Digital News Production: Unit Introduction and Understanding of the project tasks.

Introduction  The Digital News unit will focus on the key origins of news programming, and the methods used to create an outreach to all people of the world. Throughout this unit we will learn the importance of News within its genre and also how things have evolved since its inception. Project Brief  One of our main challenges in this unit will be to use the knowledge and experience gained to produce the following in a group: * To design our own digital online news brand/channel via a website or video channel service e.g. Youtube.   -...